Social-Awareness

A spoken word poet on the experience of being different to the other kids in school

 An inspiring TED talk by Shane Koyczan, a Canadian spoken-word poet who shares his stories about bullying and being bullied. …

More is needed to bring empathy into action in schools

 

This short blogpost, published on the Edutopia website in 2011 by Dr. Maurice Elias of Rutgers University in the …

A call for education that supports the flourishing of diverse capabilities

An inspiring TED talk presented in 2010 by Sir Ken Robinson, calling for a transformation in education, a move from …

Schools need to treat creativity with the same importance as literacy

A popular TED talk presented in 2006 by Sir Ken Robinson, who believes that many schools today are “educating kids …

Three ways to teach in a world where students no longer have to come to school to acquire knowledge

A convincing TED talk by Diana Laufenberg, a high school social studies teacher who believes that a paradigm shift is …

A chemistry teacher’s rules for cultivating curiosity

 A short but compelling TED talk by Ramsey Musallam, a high school chemistry teacher who believes that teachers are essentially …

A video about learning the skills to engage an audience

A TED talk passionately delivered by Christopher Emdin, a teacher who proposes that there is a need for educators …

The right way to communicate science to young learners

A compelling TED talk by Tyler DeWitt, a science teacher who believes that teaching science to middle school children needs …

An inspiring talk by a teacher about building relationships in the classroom

An inspiring, funny and rousing TED talk by Rita Pierson, a passionate teacher who believes that teaching and learning pivots …

What is needed to scale up non-cognitive development in education today

 

This article, published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review in February 2015, calls for the scaling up of non-cognitive …